Dear all

We would like to announce a special issue for the journal IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

The general topic revolves around perceptual optimization processes related to attentional and predictive mechanisms. We are 

interested on work coming from a wide range of areas including robotics, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. 

Themes include:

·      Attentional and gating mechanisms for action and sensory information processing

·      Context- and task-dependent perceptual optimization

·      Sensory attenuation/cancellation and sensory enhancement/facilitation

·      Interplay of predictive and attentional mechanisms for prediction error minimization

·      Multimodal integration and/or cross-modal interactions

·      State representation learning

·      Constrained innate priors that drive learning

·      Prediction in language learning and comprehension

·      Prediction error dynamics monitoring

·      Dreaming, non-conscious perception, hallucination, altered perceptual phenomena

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the “Information for Authors” of the journal found at:

https://cis.ieee. org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/ tcds-information-for-authors 

Submissions should be done through the IEEE TCDS Manuscript center: 

https://mc. manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee

Please select the category “SI: Prediction and Perception in Humans and Robots”.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline - 15 July 2021

Notification to authors - 15 September 2021

Deadline revised papers submission - 15 November 2021 Final version - 15 December 2021

Guest Editors 

Alejandra Ciria (UNAM)

Guido Schillaci (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

Bruno Lara (UAEM)

Emily S. Cross (University of Glasgow)

Angelo Cangelosi (University of Manchester)